Open Anthropology Cooperative » This Week in the OAC

Nathan Dobson — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:35:25 +0000

Equipped and ready for fieldwork:

The gear, gadgets and devices or technologies of research needed to carry out fieldwork.

Cooking up anthropology in Europe:
Where can you combine a career in cooking with anthropological research?

Sexual dimorphism in children:

Determining sex in pre-pubescent children.

Most active group:
Where’s the buzz @? Digital or Urban anthropology or The Human Economy?

Nathan Dobson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:40:35 +0000

Members only:

The OAC community strides towards the 6,000 mark. Flick through the members list to see some well-known and highly-regarded new recruits.

Critical realism:
Everything you need to know.

Creative destruction:
Post Katrina New Orleans as a triumph against material adversity.

What’s in a state?

“Language in colour”.

Nathan Dobson — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:52:11 +0000

NEW ONLINE SEMINAR:

The fact that old brain functions are recycled when people use money has broader implications for modern economic theory. Sascha Bourgeois-Gironde’s paper linking neuroscience and economic anthropology is available now over at the OAC Press. Further information and the results of the test can be found where the seminar will run from 30th Jan to 11th Feb.

Nathan Dobson — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:42:44 +0000

Book review:

Dr. Simeon S. Magliveras tackles Tapp’s ‘The Impossibility of Self: an essay on the Hmong Diaspora‘.

Ethnographic films relating to death:
A new thread comes alive in the anthropology of death group.

Anthropology as science of survival:
Johannes Fabian’s Huxley memorial lecture stirs a few sensibilities.

On ethnographic field notes:
John McCeery invites us to participate as he looks at the notion of tradition in his field notes.

Satisfy your hunger for art with a thorough look at Arab contributions at the Venice Biennial 2011.

Nathan Dobson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:49:55 +0000

Careers advice:

Where to study anthropology and whether to add blog posts to your CV.

Honor killing:
Acceptable code of conduct or outrageous tradition?

Anthropologists cast adrift:
Feeling Alone within your own University or profession?

OAC identity formation:
Are you ready to become part of a research project where the OAC is the case study?

Nathan Dobson — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:36:30 +0000

Not your traditional Marxist reading:

“Rather like a Barbra Streisand farewell tour, [anthropology] just keeps carrying on“.

Sociology vs anthropology:
Whose side are you on?

A current thread on obscurity is bringing out the best of the OAC:

Videos to boot:

Nathan Dobson — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:13:13 +0000

Action Group 4 OAC:
“The purpose of this group is to have a peg in the OAC for people to share what they can do, or would suggest can be done to carry on the usefulness of having 5000 anthropologists linked”..

UC Davis: anthropology and OWS:
A clampdown on protests in California sparks a reaction from OAC contributors.

Anthropologists’ oratory skills on trial:

Obscurity is shown to be a vital rhetorical device for academics.

Be the change you want to see in the world:

Nathan Dobson — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:44:16 +0000

NEW ONLINE SEMINAR:

The OAC’s new working paper is an unprecedented and extremely moving tale of an informant and anthropologist who became deep friends. The intricate and revealing bond explored in Liria de la Cruz and Paloma Gay y Blasco’s, “Friendship, Anthropology”, involves both a dramatic romance and a cultural clash of legal and moral systems. The seminar will run from 21 November to 3 December.

Nathan Dobson — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:42:46 +0000

THE LAST PUSH:

Thank you so much to all those that have already added their contribution to keep the OAC going. Unfortunately time is running out and we are still desperate to reach our target. Please help to keep this valuable resource alive. Still not convinced?

Theatre politics:
Politicans are currently putting on quite a show but what can be gleaned from their current performance… the emergence of a new world theatre state?

Anthropology of emotions:
A recent and active group with quite a different approach.

Anthropology in Africa:

Two recent threads try to breach the frontier. “Anthropology’s dwindling fortune” and “The future of anthropology in Africa“.

Winner of the “most active group award”: Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks.

Nathan Dobson — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:07:26 +0000

OAC FUNDRAISER:

After a brilliant start, the OAC fundraiser is faltering. Please check out our new fundraising section for information on how the site is maintained and offer your support before the November 15th deadline.

Recent threads around the theme of the crisis and “Occupy” movement:
Occupy, Occupy and anthropologists, Anthropology of Finance, Crisis, Crisis and narrative, Did the machines win?, Agencements.

Older threads around the theme of what it is to be an anthropologist:
The lonely anthropologist, Who’s Open?, Citizendium and Wikipedia, Anthropologist divided, Anthropologist distracted.

And now for something completely different:
A lost little boy.